An exploration of the artistic and pop culture concepts of sequels, remakes, retcons, and rejects, this book applies them to the ways in which we understand, reinterpret and revise real-world history and current events. Free from such sequence, novels, comics, films, and TV shows continue previous events (sequels), reveal previously unknown events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can still ignore any of these revisions if they chose (rejects). But what if these revisionist tropes adopted by popular media now provide us with the essential tools and rhetoric for…mehr
An exploration of the artistic and pop culture concepts of sequels, remakes, retcons, and rejects, this book applies them to the ways in which we understand, reinterpret and revise real-world history and current events. Free from such sequence, novels, comics, films, and TV shows continue previous events (sequels), reveal previously unknown events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can still ignore any of these revisions if they chose (rejects). But what if these revisionist tropes adopted by popular media now provide us with the essential tools and rhetoric for understanding the nature of the real world and how we discuss it? Deriving revision types from those present in fictional franchises such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and the Marvel comics, Chris Gavaler and Nate Goldberg apply them to events and debates in U.S history, politics, law, science and culture to explore how storytelling frames our engagement with historiography, metaphysics, society and current events. Covering case studies such as the reversal of Roe vs Wade, identity politics, the discoveries of Copernicus, memory, cancel culture, supreme court rulings, revisionist history, critical race theory, paradigm shifts and much more, this book makes our perceptions of the world and their relation to an ever-changing reality accessible and coherent.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is the author of On the Origin of Superheroes (2015), Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury 2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Nathaniel Goldberg, 2019), Creating Comics (with Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury 2020), Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account (with Nathaniel Goldberg, 2021), and The Comics Form (Bloomsbury 2022). Nathaniel Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is the author of Kantian Conceptual Geography (2014), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Chris Gavaler, 2019) and Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account (with Chris Gavaler, 2022).
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Introduction: the Histories of History Sequels Remakes Retcons Rejects Moving Forward 1. Rejecting Possibilities Unforced Exorcised Unearthed Mandated TERFed Gated Re-versed Barred 2. Rewriting History Storying Origins Revering Paul Amending Men Trumping Thomas Queering Authors Canceling Culture Hiding History 3. Making America Resolving Winners Remaking America (Great Again) Reckoning Reagan Criticizing the Common Core Objecting to Obamacare Revising Racism Criticizing Critical Race Theory Taking Tenure 4. Retconning Law Ridged Klingons v. Ridgeless Klingons Ministers and Genomes v. Winnie the Pooh Buses v. Cars and Cocaine Trafficking Judicial Retcons v. Legal Sequels Metaphysics v. Epistemology Cannons v. Stun Guns People v. People SCOTUS v. Disregarding Citizens 5. Knowing Science Planets and Dwarves Lizards and Birds Hobbits and Hoaxes Counseling and Cognition Ulcers and Ivermectin Paradigms and Shifts 6. Naming Change A Knight and a Lord A Caliph and a Prince Two Marriages and a Divorce Two Women A Baby and Dear Abby A Star, a King, and a Kennedy A Building and an Institution A Man, a Person, and a Corporation A Person and an Alias 7. Changing Minds Encoring Yesterdays Categorizing Villains Theorizing Characters Alternating Worlds Justifying Cartoonists Combating Memories Forgetting Selves Continuing People Philosophizing Brains Bibliography Index
Introduction: the Histories of History Sequels Remakes Retcons Rejects Moving Forward 1. Rejecting Possibilities Unforced Exorcised Unearthed Mandated TERFed Gated Re-versed Barred 2. Rewriting History Storying Origins Revering Paul Amending Men Trumping Thomas Queering Authors Canceling Culture Hiding History 3. Making America Resolving Winners Remaking America (Great Again) Reckoning Reagan Criticizing the Common Core Objecting to Obamacare Revising Racism Criticizing Critical Race Theory Taking Tenure 4. Retconning Law Ridged Klingons v. Ridgeless Klingons Ministers and Genomes v. Winnie the Pooh Buses v. Cars and Cocaine Trafficking Judicial Retcons v. Legal Sequels Metaphysics v. Epistemology Cannons v. Stun Guns People v. People SCOTUS v. Disregarding Citizens 5. Knowing Science Planets and Dwarves Lizards and Birds Hobbits and Hoaxes Counseling and Cognition Ulcers and Ivermectin Paradigms and Shifts 6. Naming Change A Knight and a Lord A Caliph and a Prince Two Marriages and a Divorce Two Women A Baby and Dear Abby A Star, a King, and a Kennedy A Building and an Institution A Man, a Person, and a Corporation A Person and an Alias 7. Changing Minds Encoring Yesterdays Categorizing Villains Theorizing Characters Alternating Worlds Justifying Cartoonists Combating Memories Forgetting Selves Continuing People Philosophizing Brains Bibliography Index
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